When the Orion spacecraft carrying NASA’s Artemis II crew pierces Earth’s atmosphere on Friday evening, it will be traveling at nearly 25,000 mph. Within minutes, a precisely choreographed sequence of ...
Orion's return flyby burn began today at 11:43 a.m. ET, during which time ground controllers temporarily and expectedly lost contact with the capsule. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Orion spacecraft ...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has traveled nearly 270,000 miles away from Earth on its distant orbit of the moon, and soon it will be heading back toward Earth. But before it splashes down on Earth it has ...